Why Bowe Bergdahl wanted to prove to the world he wasn’t a failure – The Washington Post

By Jia Lynn Yang and Julie Vitkovskaya March 17 at 2:54 PM

In this Jan. 12, 2016, file photo, Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl arrives for a pretrial hearing at Fort Bragg, N.C. Bergdahl says he left a post in Afghanistan in 2009 to draw attention to what he saw as leadership problems in newly released documents from a military investigation. (Ted Richardson/AP)
Bowe Bergdahl’s lawyers on Wednesday released a transcript of an interview between Bergdahl and an Army investigating officer that stretched over two days. In the transcript, the Bergdahl reflects on his childhood, his dissolution with military leadership in Afghanistan and the moment the Taliban captured him.